John Bennett
Senior Software Engineer at Netflix
Emeryville, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Bennett is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of industry experience, currently building scalable systems at Netflix from his base in Emeryville, California. His career traces back to lead and architect roles at Blizzard Entertainment and IGN, where he shaped game and media platforms and bridged creative product needs with robust technical design. Skilled in driving cross-functional engineering efforts, he has repeatedly stepped into lead roles to deliver complex, high-traffic services and tooling. John brings a blend of production-first pragmatism and architectural foresight honed across entertainment and media tech stacks. A University of Arizona computer science graduate, he pairs deep hands-on engineering with an appreciation for product-driven outcomes. Colleagues describe him as the kind of engineer who can both prototype quickly and steward systems reliably at scale.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaIolani School
English, Japanese
Github Skills (10)
load-balancing10
failover10
aws10
high-availability9
service-discovery9
load-balancer9
analyzer3
golang2
map-editor1
tiled1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
yobennett/kafka
Jul 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 month
yobennett/bcc
Oct 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:12 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
bpfbcclinuxnetworkingmonitoring
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